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Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 163 kt with 7.9° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 167 kt, 12 kt under its 179 kt target.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 1,004 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,747 m of runway left; gear up at 139 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,890 fpm on average to 1,004 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,600 m runway.
Rolled from 54 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m left. Airborne 45 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, banked until 0.5 nm, sinking too fast from 0.9 nm and right of the centreline from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 550 ft over).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 276 m right of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then drifted 44 m left between 0.7 and 0.3 nm, then 15 m right of it from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −7 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 139 kt.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 117 ft agl above the runway, higher than this type wants. Touchdown was 883 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 179° at 6 kt · 5 kt head · 0 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 47 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 2,076 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 148 ft, 98 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 117 ft. Touched down 883 m in, 578 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 2,076 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 630 fpm at the flare to 210 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.8° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 2,076 m of the 3,200 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.8 m of it down the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended.
Touched down 883 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight departed from Harbin Taiping International Airport, located in Harbin, Heilongjiang Sheng, China, and began its enroute climb 3 miles southwest of the airport. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, ascended from an initial altitude of 1,558 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 34,262 feet, a vertical increase of 32,703 feet, in just 17 minutes. This phase of the flight covered a distance of 99 nautical miles, setting the stage for the long-haul journey ahead.
As the aircraft entered its enroute level cruise, it leveled off at 34,262 feet and continued on its course, passing 7 miles east of Changchun Longjia International Airport in Jilin Sheng, China. This phase of the flight lasted for 564 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 670 nautical miles. The crew then initiated the enroute descent, starting 7 miles east of Seongmu Airport in South Korea. The aircraft descended from 34,424 feet to 392 feet above sea level, a vertical decrease of 34,032 feet, in 24 minutes, covering a distance of 133 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 18R at Gimhae International Airport in South Korea was executed from the north, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 174.0 degrees at an altitude of 363 feet above ground level. The landing was completed on the 3,206-meter runway, with the threshold height being excessively over target, but the threshold speed was within acceptable limits. The touchdown point was 448 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 130 knots. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions were favorable, with a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 6 knots from 180 degrees. The total landing distance was 1,977 meters, accounting for 62% of the runway length. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking 5 minutes to cover a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 909 nautical miles, and the aircraft consumed 5,738 kilograms of fuel during the journey, which lasted for 140 minutes.
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